reviewed_on,comments,work_id,metaphor,theme,text,id,context,provenance,created_at,updated_at,dictionary
,"",6808,"""But a voice from heaven was heard, which determined all disputes; he shall not be removed out of the hands of mortals, because happy are the breasts that shall give him suck, the hands that shall hold him, and the bed on which he shall rest! after so many striking evidences, my dear Joshua, the heart of man must be steeled not to believe his holy law.""","","[...] From above the angels, indignant, cried out, what will there remain for us to do? But a voice from heaven was heard, which determined all disputes; he shall not be removed out of the hands of mortals, because happy are the breasts that shall give him suck, the hands that shall hold him, and the bed on which he shall rest! after so many striking evidences, my dear Joshua, the heart of man must be steeled not to believe his holy law. What could heaven do more to authorize his divine mission, unless nature itself had been overturned, and all mankind had been destroyed whose conviction it designed?

Après tant de témoignages si éclatants, mon cher Josué, il faut avoir un cœur de fer pour ne pas croire sa sainte loi. Que pouvoit faire davantage le ciel pour autoriser sa mission divine, à moins de renverser la nature, et de faire périr les hommes mêmes qu'il vouloit convaincre?]
(Letter XXXIX, Hagi Ibbi to the Jew Ben-Joshua, a Mahometan Proselyte, at Smyrna.)",22119,"Letter XXXIX, Hagi Ibbi to the Jew Ben-Joshua, a Mahometan Proselyte, at Smyrna.",Searching at OLL,2013-08-09 16:09:20 UTC,2013-08-09 16:09:20 UTC,Metal
,"",6808,"""I have the feelings of humanity for the unhappy, as if none but they were men: and even the great, towards whom I find my heart as stone whilst they are in prosperity, I love them when they are fallen.""","","I own to thee, Usbek, I never saw the tears of any person trickle down, without being moved to compassion: I have the feelings of humanity for the unhappy, as if none but they were men: and even the great, towards whom I find my heart as stone whilst they are in prosperity, I love them when they are fallen.

And indeed, during their prosperity what need have they of tenderness? It looks too much like equality. They are fonder of respect, which requires no return. But as soon as they are fallen from their high station, nothing but our lamentations can make them recal the idea of their greatness.